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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.
Simile
Stanza
Antagonist
Quatrain
2. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Act
Stereotype
Fiction
Oxymoron
3. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Connotation
Motif
Hyperbole
Tercet
4. A character struggles against some outside force.
Foot
External Conflict
Denotation
Motif
5. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Assonance
Pyrrhic
Dactyl
Myth
6. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Persona
Complication
Aubade
Connotation
7. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Nonfiction
External Conflict
Point of View
Characterization
8. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Free Verse
Subplot
Denotation
Stereotype
9. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Free Verse
Figurative Language
Syntax
Hyperbole
10. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.
Style
Octave
Aubade
Diction
11. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Protagonist
Analogy
Synecdoche
Dramatic Irony
12. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Characterization
Oxymoron
Denotation
Synecdoche
13. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Rhythm
Closed Form
Syntax
Dialect
14. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Parable
Apostrophe
Parallelism
Paradox
15. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Allusion
Meter
3rd Person (Limited)
Image
16. A three-line stanza.
Parallelism
Spondee
Verbal Irony
Tercet
17. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Comic Relief
1st Person
Motif
Foil
18. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Epigram
Verbal Irony
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Parable
19. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Simile
Elegy
Hyperbole
20. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Connotation
Personification
Sonnet
Lyric Poem
21. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Pyrrhic
Conflict
Sonnet
Denouement
22. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Syntax
Figurative Language
Literal Language
Denouement
23. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Characterization
Allusion
Persona
Stereotype
24. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Aside
Denotation
Understatement
Image
25. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Foreshadowing
Assonance
Metaphor
Hyperbole
26. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Metonymy
Dactyl
Elegy
Subject
27. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Falling Meter
Metaphor
Aphorism
Syntax
28. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Allegory
Ode
Parallelism
Epigram
29. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Elision
Epigram
Character
Oxymoron
30. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Complication
Assonance
Narrator
Personification
31. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Climax
Narrative Poem
Connotation
Situational Irony
32. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Elegy
Foil
Reversal
Couplet
33. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Catharsis
Figurative Language
Dialect
Oxymoron
34. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Satire
Antagonist
Cliche
Verbal Irony
35. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Exposition
Solioquy
Structure
Analogy
36. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Stanza
Meter
Cliche
Ode
37. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Assonance
Elision
Plot
Cliche
38. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Aphorism
Satire
Theme
Understatement
39. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Hyperbole
Allegory
Character
Nonfiction
40. A four line stanza in a poem.
Solioquy
Sonnet
Quatrain
Situational Irony
41. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Onomatopoeia
Anapest
Folklore
42. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Meter
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Paradox
Denouement
43. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Legend
Alliteration
Dialogue
Enjambment
44. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Pyrrhic
Enjambment
Ballad
Narrative Poem
45. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Comic Relief
Convention
Paradox
Alliteration
46. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Rhythm
Sonnet
Situational Irony
Falling Meter
47. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Recognition
Dialect
Plot
Falling Meter
48. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Convention
Solioquy
Internal Conflict
Legend
49. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Couplet
Catharsis
Denouement
Ode
50. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Epiphany
Ballad
Sestina
Myth